one day you feel this big chunk in your throat choking you, and you realize you cant scream or cry... there is no emotion that can come from you at all. a lot has happened to you since you were a child, you have witneesed a…

In the past two years, over 30 young women in Uganda have been abducted and then murdered. It is a sitution that has sent shock waves throughou the country, and petrified young women particularly in the capital city, Kampala…

I am devastated to hear that a young girl has taken her life because she was shamed for period stains on her clothing. I am reposting @officialjanetmbugua here: Allegedly, she had soiled (stained) her dress because she was…

The mission of Women for Women (WFW) is to improve the lives of women and girls in Western North Carolina through women’s collective giving. Direct service or advocacy projects should clearly focus on one of the following…

The Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation of The German Marshall Fund of the USA seek to support confidence building activities of non-state actors in the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Moldova…

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development: a) is an independent, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit; b) aims to foster greater awareness about Palestine, in the United States and abroad, and to ameliorate the…

The Sparkplug Foundation is seeking applications to fund start-up organizations and new projects of established organizations in music, education and community organizing. Its aim is to support the development of emerging…

How can policies and programs are inclusive and more specifically, gender sensitive? How do values of inclusiveness and gender equality result in better performance and greater benefits for your organization or community?…

“Photography 4 Humanity” is an international initiative that calls on photographers around the world to bring to life the power of human rights through their images. Their esteemed jury is looking for compelling, dynamic and…

The Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) seeks applications focusing on the educational and emotional needs of children of targeted progressive activists, and youth who are targeted activists themselves. NOTE: “targeted” means…

Today I had nothing to say, so I thought of sharing my personal self from within. Growing up I was taught to be the mature one, the bravest and understanding one since I was the oldest. I have always kept everything to my…

Ms. Naseeem Shaikh will be representing her organization Huairou Commission ,Swayam Shikshan Prayog & Collective Impact Partnership ( CIP) during her stay in New York, and will present on the actions they are taking at…

9-month residential fellowship by the Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to conduct research and write in their areas of interest while interacting with policymakers in…

The Matrix Causes Fund (MCF) aims provide support to access to justice (particularly for people trying to get support to meet their basic personal needs), or promote equality of opportunity, or promote a sustainable…

The German Federal Foreign Office promotes around 120 to 140 projects of varying sizes worldwide, primarily in emerging and developing countries in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe, for supporting…

In order to stop girls from going through the horror and sustainably contribute to ending FGM by 2030, SIRP NIGERIA uses the Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) approach. The ARP approach takes away the cut while retaining…

I was 26 and a married man of 54 insist he wants to marry me. This all started as he kept giving me financial support when I needed it most in shool. He became so close that i felt i shouldn't hurt him because he was kind to…

I wish I could talk about the good without talking about the hard, but I can’t. You admire me now but have no idea what I have been through. It's true what they say "we sometimes don't look like what we have been through''.…

My name is Laura Peña, and I am originally from the Dominican Republic. I deeply believe that girls are the future, so last year I decided to put my entire life on pause to go on a journey around the world to capture and…

I want to share about some stages in my life and how I have come to appreciate them. You see, today I was at a major telecommunications company where I worked from 2006-2008, I wasn't there to apply for a job or contract,…